1So Solomon gathered all the OGs of Israel, the tribe heads, and the fam to bring the ark of the covenant to king Solomon in Jerusalem, straight outta the city of David, aka Zion.

2All the dudes from Israel showed up to king Solomon's feast in Ethanim month, which is like the seventh month, no cap.

3The elders of Israel rolled in, and the priests grabbed the ark, fr.

4They brought the ark of the Lord, the tabernacle, and all the holy gear from the tabernacle, like the priests and Levites were totally on it.

5King Solomon and the whole squad of Israel vibed before the ark, sacrificing mad sheep and oxen, like there were way too many to count, periodt.

6The priests brought the ark of the covenant to its spot in the house, into the oracle, the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubims.

7The cherubims flexed their two wings over the ark, covering it and the staves above, total rizz.

8They pulled out the staves, and you could see the ends in the holy place before the oracle, but not outside, and they're still there today, no cap.

9The ark had only the two stone tablets that Moses dropped at Horeb when the Lord made a deal with the Israelites after they bounced from Egypt.

10When the priests dipped out of the holy place, a cloud filled the Lord's house, and it was lit.

11The priests couldn't even vibe to do their thing 'cause the cloud was so thick; the glory of the Lord was totally filling the house, no cap.

12Solomon was like, "God said He’s chillin' in the thick darkness, fr."

13"I built you a dope house to hang in, a forever spot for you to chill," he said.

14Then the king turned and blessed all the squad of Israel: (and everyone stood up, periodt.)

15He said, "Big ups to the Lord God of Israel, who spoke to my dad David and made it happen with His hands, no cap."

16"Since the day I brought my peeps Israel outta Egypt, I didn’t pick a city from all the tribes to build a house for my name; I chose David to lead my people."

17"David, my father, had it in his heart to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel."

18"And the Lord told David, 'It’s cool that you wanted to build a house for my name; that was a good vibe.'"

19"But you ain't gonna build it; your son coming from you will build the house for my name."

20"The Lord came through on His word, and I’m here taking David's spot, sitting on Israel's throne, just like the Lord promised, and I built a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel."

21I set a spot for the ark, where the Lord's covenant is, the one He made with our fam when He dipped them outta Egypt.

22Solomon stood in front of the Lord's altar with all the squad of Israel, arms up to the sky like, "What's good?"

23He said, "Yo, Lord God of Israel, there’s no one like you, up in the clouds or down here, keeping it real with your crew who vibe with you, no cap."

24You kept it 100 with your boy David, my dad, just like you promised. You spoke it, and now you made it happen, periodt.

25So now, Lord God of Israel, keep it real with your boy David like you said, so there’s always someone from his line on the throne of Israel; let the kids stay on the right path like he did.

26And now, God of Israel, let your word pop off like you told your boy David, my dad.

27But for real, will God chill on earth? Like, the heavens can’t even hold you, so how’s this house I built gonna do it?

28Still, show love to the prayer of your servant and listen to his plea, Lord my God, hear the cries and prayers he’s throwing up to you today.

29Keep your eyes open on this house day and night, the place you said your name would be; so you can hear the prayers your servant sends up from here.

30And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this spot: hear from heaven, your crib, and when you do, forgive.

31If anyone beefs with their neighbor and has to swear an oath at your altar, that's the vibe.

32Then hear from heaven, do your thing, and judge your peeps, calling out the haters and backing up the good ones, periodt.

33When your squad Israel gets wrecked by the enemies 'cause they messed up, and they come back to you, confessing and praying in this spot:

34Then hear from heaven, forgive Israel's sins, and bring them back to the land you gave their fam.

35When heaven's dry and no rain's falling 'cause they've tripped up, if they pray towards this place and confess your name while you’re putting them through it:

36Then hear from heaven, forgive your servants and Israel, teach them the right path to walk, and send rain on the land you gave your people, no cap.

37If there’s famine, pestilence, or locusts in the land, or if their enemies are around their cities; whatever plague or sickness hits:

38Any prayer or plea made by anyone, or all your people Israel, who knows their own heart's struggle and reaches out to this house:

39Then hear from heaven, your home base, forgive, do your thing, and give everyone what they deserve, 'cause you know what's in their hearts, no cap.

40So they can vibe with you all their days in the land you gave our ancestors.

41Yo, if a stranger rolls up from far away just to vibe with your name, that's legit.

42They’ll hear about your lit name and strong moves, then they’ll come pray at this spot.

43Listen up from heaven, and do what the stranger asks, so everyone knows your name and respects you like your peeps do. This house I built? It's all about your name.

44If your squad heads out to fight their haters wherever you send them, and they pray to you towards the city you picked, and the house I built for your name:

45For real, hear their prayers and their requests, and keep it 100 for them.

46If they mess up (no cap, everyone slips up), and you get mad and hand them over to their enemies, making them captives far or near;

47But if they come to their senses in the land where they got taken, and they vibe with you, saying, "We messed up and did wrong,"

48And return to you with all their heart and soul, in the land of their enemies, praying towards their land, the city you chose, and the house I built for your name:

49Then, for sure, hear their prayers and requests from heaven, and keep it real for them,

50And forgive your people for their mess-ups, and all the wrongs they’ve done, and show them some love in front of those who took them captive, so they can show them love back.

51They’re your squad, and your fam, that you pulled outta Egypt, straight from the iron furnace vibes.

52So your eyes can be lit to hear the prayers of your servant and your crew, Israel, and listen to all their calls, fr.

53You set them apart from all the peeps on the earth to be your fam, just like you told Moses, when you brought our ancestors outta Egypt, O Lord God.

54And when Solomon wrapped up his prayer to the Lord, he got up from the altar, having knelt with his hands up to the sky.

55He stood up and blessed all the Israel fam with a loud voice, saying,

56Big ups to the Lord, who gave rest to his people Israel, just like he promised: not a single word of his good promise flopped, which he gave through Moses.

57May the Lord our God be with us, like he was with our ancestors: don’t dip on us or ghost us,

58So he can vibe our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, statutes, and judgments he gave our fam.

59And let my words, with which I prayed to the Lord, be close to the Lord our God day and night, that he keeps it real for his servant and his people Israel at all times, as needed.

60So all the peeps on the earth can know that the Lord is God, and there’s no one else, no cap.

61Keep your heart 100 with the Lord, fam. Walk in His rules and vibe with His commandments, just like today.

62The king and all of Israel pulled up and offered sacrifices to the Lord, no cap.

63Solomon was out here with peace offerings, flexing 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep for the Lord. The king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the Lord, fr.

64That same day, the king made the middle of the court holy for the house of the Lord, offering burnt and meat offerings, 'cause the altar was too small for all the good stuff.

65Solomon threw a lit feast, and all Israel rolled with him, a huge crew, from Hamath to the river of Egypt, for seven days, then another seven days.

66On the eighth day, he sent everyone home, and they blessed the king, rolling back to their tents, happy and vibing over all the good things the Lord did for David and Israel.

1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

2And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

3And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

4And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

5And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

7For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

8And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

9There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

10And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

11So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.

12Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

13I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

14And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)

15And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

16Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

17And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

18And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

19Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

20And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

21And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

22And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

23And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

24Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

25Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

26And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

28Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

29That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

30And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

31If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

32Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

33When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

34Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

35When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

36Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

37If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

38What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

40That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

41Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

42(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;

43Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

44If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

47Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

48And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

49Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

50And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

51For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

52That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

53For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

54And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

55And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

56Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

57The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

58That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

59And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

60That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

62And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

63And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

64The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

65And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

66On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.